When The Whole Earth Shall Know Him - Billy Cole - Because of the Times 1993

i'm so thankful for that we have a man of this caliber great man if he just knew how to laugh we'd really brother cole we believe in you [Music] thank you brother kilgore and praise the lord everyone let's give a great hand praise unto the lord shake hands with someone tell them you love their hair do before you sit down [Laughter] [Applause] god bless you and you may be seated well how i deeply appreciate the confidence that brother kilgore has in me i treasure that so very very much and by god's help and by god's grace i shall not betray him praise the lord that my father's death the kilgore became my pastor and i thank god for this great man of god this has been no doubt the most outstanding conference type meeting that i've ever been in in all my life i have felt the touch of god i have received encouragement i have received in direction and i've had some of my weaknesses revealed to me amen today has been no exception in my opinion tom fred tinney is the greatest teacher that has ever lived amen i am a teacher sometimes i preach at night the only difference between what i do at night and the day is i get a little bit louder i always teach [Laughter] i am a teacher but brother tinney is a greater teacher than i am and beryl ewing in my opinion is the greatest christian i have ever met and believe me it's a great honor to follow these men but it is also a nervous wreck [Applause] can you believe that that moral ewing got up here and preached every text i was going to read [Laughter] but he didn't preach my sermon so i'm okay hallelujah god bless you god bless you i promise you i'm not here by choice of my own i certainly wouldn't choose this i told my nephew brother jack cunningham whom i love so much i tell everybody he's the high tech version of me [Applause] [Laughter] i told him i said if they get up tomorrow and announce that i had an emergency in charleston and had to go home you lean over and tell whoever you're sitting beside you the bill is lying he doesn't want to get out of here [Applause] but i do have a message for you [Applause] praise god i thank you for your help yesterday in making this trip i will be leaving less than two weeks or three crusades a glorious magnificent revival has come to the island of papua new guinea great yes sir and right now there is a church of 7 000 members that are waiting for my coming and the church in papua new guinea is expecting all of them to be baptized in jesus name while we are there in this crusade we're going to believe god will fill them with the holy ghost too then i'll be going to the annual conference in thailand that i go to every year from there to northeast india and they have told me that there will be approximately five to seven thousand people in the meeting that have been baptized that has not yet received the holy ghost and we're believing god for a massive outpouring of the holy ghost in northeast india and then i will be going to ethiopia from there and brother teclamarium called me about a week or 10 days ago and he said brother cole the government is still stable the situation has not changed and due to the excitement that has come to the church because of the crusade last year we are expecting 300 000 people in the meeting only god knows what might happen in ethiopia this year can you say praise the lord hallelujah in the book of genesis chapter 44 i'm going to do something today that i rarely ever do and that's take a text out of the old testament it's absolutely incredible what we do with some of those tests [Laughter] wow but it's harder to do when you take a new testament text but i'm going to go to the old testament that's the only scripture that merle left me [Laughter] so i'm going to read it [Laughter] in genesis chapter 44 and verse 31 it shall come to pass when he seeth that the land is not with us that he will die and thy servant shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave for thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father saying if i bring him not unto thee then i shall bear the blame to my father forever now therefore i pray thee let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondsman to my lord and let the lad go up with his brethren for how shall i go up to my father and the lad be not with me lest pre-adventure i see the evil that shall come upon my father in the beginning in chapter 45 then joseph could not restrain himself before all of them that stood by him and he cried caused every man to go out from me and there stood no man with him while joseph made himself known unto his brethren and he welt aloud he wept aloud and the egyptians and the house of pharaoh heard father i thank you lord jesus for your very precious people that has gathered into this glorious atmosphere to seek the will of god to search after you lord jesus that we might indeed know you and we thank you lord that you are here we feel your wonderful glorious presence thank you lord jesus now i pray lord that you shall anoint every mind that they can receive the word of god that there shall not be one single person offended by the preaching and teaching of the word today and lord i pray that you will anoint my mind and cause my mind to be alert and loose my tongue that i may speak to your people in the name of the lord jesus christ i pray amen and amen god bless you you may be seated and while you're praying for me would you mind praying for my cavemark suspenders because i have been eating right lazily and if they would break this [Applause] [Applause] when the whole world shall know him it was marvelous the way the lord would speak to joseph and reveal to him in dreams and visions i don't know how much wisdom was there at that point and moment but he would tell his brethren about these dreams of them even bowing to him and they became very jealous because of his dreams and visions and they were filled his brethren everybody say his brethren his brethren were filled with hatred toward him because of what god was saying to joseph there was an occasion when he went quite some distance to visit them and when they seen him coming they did not say here comes our wonderful spiritual brother that is so anointed of the lord they said here comes the dreamer and they were filled with animosity and hatred towards him talking about his brother and they plotted to kill him but they got under conviction thank the lord so they decided just to isolate him and let him die on his own but someone got under conviction about that and some israelites came along and they sold him as a slave into a foreign country thinking they would never ever see him again but god's anointing never departed from joseph now he was in terrible circumstances he was a bondsman he was not just a hired employee he was us he was a slave he was scrubbing floors and carrying garbage out but he did such a good job that potiphar made him the manager of all of his business and he did such a good job at that that potiphar's wife took note of him began to lust after him but he had something in his heart that would protect him even from a circumstance like that [Applause] and she made a pass at him and he jilted her and and withstood her and she was filled with anger and it wasn't long until she told her husband we can thank god that potiphar didn't believe her he knew she was lying because if he didn't if he had thought she was telling the truth in the position that he was in of authority he would have killed him he didn't believe it believe her he knew that that woman was lying but if you get a wife that is lying and full of rage you'd better do something [Applause] [Laughter] you better not ignore that one that won't go away [Laughter] so he just put him in prison but he was such an excellent prisoner that he filled the position of the assistant warden of the whole place god's anointing never lifted from him now his circumstances was extremely difficult and he was in prison for a very long time amen but the power of god continued to work in him it's already been mentioned today amen and it wasn't long until joseph was brought to the place that god wanted him to be now men will oft times hinder the will of god in your life because god does not overrule the will of men very often and sometimes even the district board can get crossways with you and hinder the will of god in your life but don't you ignore them and don't you even fight them you'll be in trouble with god if you do if you just keep the right kind of a spirit everybody say the right kind of a spirit and do the best you can in the situation that you're put in and men close the door god will open another door and if men close that door god will open another door and if they close that door god will open another door as long as you keep your attitude right the moment that you're filled with bitterness and i'm not talking about hurt there's a lot of difference between being hurt and being bitter now hurt can become bitterness but once hurt becomes bitterness you're done you're finished it's all over i don't care if they were 100 wrong and you were 100 right it's finished you're done until you repent of that bitterness and he revealed the dreams of pharaoh and he was put in the position that god wanted him to be in the prime minister of the whole knowing world of that day of the whole empire if you please and we're into the second year of the family already seven years of plenty has passed and we're into the second year of the famine and now the famine has reached his family and they have heard that there is corn in egypt that's exactly what because of the times is in an egyptian world in a world of sin there is some food over here can you say praise the lord and just because they came they got some food there is a blessing in showing up and coming back you know jesus healed the ten lepers and they were all healed all of them were healed and jesus said go show yourself to the priest because leprosy will disfigure you and if you've had leprosy then you have to have a certificate even today in asia you have to have a certificate if the leprosy is no longer working in your body because of the disfigurement the the the certificate says the leprosy is not active and you must have that credential on you at all times because they were disfigured but there was one of them came back and jesus said you're whole and he didn't tell him to go to the priest because he restored the fingers he restored the hands he straightened up the face until there was no longer the look of leprosy upon him and there are great benefits in just coming back the marks of sin will disappear from you and if you keep coming back long enough it'll be as if you were never a sinner the look will never be there [Applause] praise the lord joseph was moved by seeing his brethren and he wanted immediately to let them know who he was but the bible says he made himself strange unto them he even spoke to them in the egyptian language he knew who they were he recognized him instantaneously but he wanted to conceal his own identity for quite some time and the first thing he wanted to know was do you have a brother yeah yeah we got a brother well he said prove to me that you're men and bring him to me do you think that preached brother maggie it would but i don't have time it's already been preached here bring me your brother praise god but you know what they didn't do it until starvation set in it was the will of god or the will of joseph for them to bring their brother to him but they never obeyed that command until they were out of food and their wives was complaining that there's nothing to eat nothing to fix babies were screaming and crying because they didn't have any food and it forced them to do the will of god so it was in jerusalem the lord said go into all the world and preached the gospel but they wanted to build one great big mega church in jerusalem but that wasn't the will of god and so he sent persecution then and drove them all over the world that this gospel might be preached and so it was hunger forced them to come back and they came back and they had benjamin with them and when joseph seen benjamin his young brother the bible says his bowels was moved within him with compassion my god that is benjamin they have brought benjamin to me and the bible says that he had to retreat into a room apart to weep and to cry he was moved he wanted to reveal himself to his brother and let them know who he was but you see he wasn't going to do that until he checked their attitudes out he wanted to know what these fellows was thinking amen amen and so he took them to his own house took them into his own banquet hall into his own dining room now i want you to get the picture i don't have time to enlarge on these things but just quickly grasp the picture here are starving ragged poor men that are hungry and tickled to death to get anything they can possibly get their hands on to eat and now they're in the dining room of the man that controls all the food in the world [Applause] what a transformation amen praise god now he knows who they are but they don't know who he is they know that he's powerful they know that he has authority they know that he has the power of life and death in his hands one word from him and they'd all be dead just like you snapped your finger they understand all that but they don't know who he is they are in his presence they're in his dining room they're sitting at his table they're even talking to him but they don't know who he is praise the lord amen and then he said put them in order according to their age you know who my presbyter is an elder of the church that i pastor i helped him get a church across town now he's my presbyter the other day he revisited visited our revival meeting and i said my presbyter is here tonight does anybody here love elder armstrong and the congregation instantly stood to their feet and cut their heads you know why they did that because i taught them to love elder armstrong anytime you show up at another man's church and the congregation loves you i promise you that what you do while you're there will be a part of it but the most of the reason they love you is because that pastor has taught them to love you amen amen never would i ever show disrespect to that elder that was once under my pastorship he is my prosperity praise the lord and then joseph said to those that were in charge of serving the meal he said you see the young one down there the one that's the youngest down there on the end said give him said give them all what they need but give him five times more now then benjamin was not worthy of five times more he had done absolutely nothing to be worthy of that there was one single reason one single purpose why joseph said give him five times more because he wanted to see what his brethren would do [Laughter] praise god i'm telling you when joseph got through with those servants they were just wanting to touch him i wonder who this one guy is i wonder who benjamin is i wish i could shake hands with him but i'm i'm too nervous i'm too intimidated i wouldn't dare shake hands with him i'll tell you what i'm going to do the next time i serve him i'm just going to bump up against him a little bit they just wanted to touch him touch him because he was esteemed in the highest place on earth he was the other guest of that place and for one purpose he wanted to see what his brother was going to do when he was honored in this fashion i was in landmark you know and this has been a while back this has there last week they love me more than you they give me four hours [Laughter] [Applause] when i was in landmark one other time and a missionary got up from africa and he told about a very short revival meeting like like a week's time or six or eight days something like that and he told about a hundred people receiving the baptism of the holy ghost and that whole congregation stood up and just clapped their hands and when i got up i said missionary do you know why they stood and clapped it was because you're 5 000 miles away from them if you'd have been 20 miles away they had to give you this and he said he's a compromiser anyhow probably half of them got beards [Applause] and then joseph said call those servants aside he said you see that young man that we've been honoring so said now i want you to make him look like a crook and put my silver cup in his sack benjamin was not worthy of that humiliation there was one single purpose why he wanted to make benjamin look like a crook he wanted to see what his brethren would do praise the lord and it wasn't long until they were down the road a few miles and they were arrested and they knew exactly where that cup was they'd put it in the sack amen so they started with the oldest one they made quite a drama out of it and went through all the sacks and finally they found the cup in benjamin's sack and they arrested him and him only you don't have any problem with the rest of you you can go on home now but he's going to be a slave he's going to be imprisoned and in control the rest of his life he has dared to steal the cup of the prime minister of the whole knowing world they could have said you little smart alec i knew you were just a show-off over there in that dining room you thought you were so smart when you was being exalted and lifted up i knew you was a crook all the time they could have said that but it's mighty good that they didn't say that praise the lord it's very good that they didn't say that they fell down on their knees now they didn't know whether he was a crook or not they didn't know whether he had stolen that cup or not they didn't know now the soldiers knew the police knew the guys that arrested them knew that they had put it in there but those brethren didn't know all they knew was that he was their brother and that their brother was in trouble [Music] that's all they knew and they also knew they had just been exalted to the high heavens he had just been exalted my god he had hundreds of thousands to get the holy ghost [Music] praise the lord and they went on their knees and began to plead the case and they finally persuaded those policemen to let them go back they wouldn't even let them go back with them but they finally persuaded the police to let them go back with their brother benjamin and when they were brought into the court or into the chambers of their brother joseph whom they still did not know they knew he was powerful they knew he had authority they knew he was mighty they knew that they had that he had their very life in his hands that he had the power of life and death they knew all of that they knew that he was wise they knew that he was the wisest man on the earth and through his wisdom the world was being saved they understood that but they really didn't know who he was amen and when they came in and fell down before joseph and began to weep and to plead for their brother's life that was a thing that he could not resist he couldn't resist and he drove everybody out and the bible says that he fell upon them and wept and re and let him know that i am joseph your brother now joseph is a type of christ amen egypt is a type of the world and the bible says that all of egypt heard not only those brother knew who he was but all of egypt knew who joseph was now here is the message when is jesus going to reveal himself to the whole world whenever you love jesus more than you already love him i propose to you tonight that will be next to impossible for this crowd to love jesus more than you already love him i loved him when i got here but with all this preaching my soul and my chest and my heart and my head is ready to explode with love for jesus that's not what he's waiting on [Music] there is an intense love in this congregation one of the most beautiful congregations i've ever had the privilege to preach to in my life and one of the most distinguished i'm telling you there is an intense love for the lost in this place can you say amen how many loves lost you know we're here for commitment commitment to god i believe we're making it a commitment to a lost world i believe we've made it the problems in the middle out there a commitment to each other you might say well brother cole we just had a love feast not enough [Music] not if we're going to see revival not if we're really going to see revival amen it's not enough just to love your brother you're going to have to respect your brother you're going to have to realize who your brother is and what he is the number one problem of revival in north america is not the lack of the power of god god has completely and totally restored his church in power there are miracles happening today that the book of the acts of the apostles cannot even come close to it [Applause] show me in the book of acts where 18 000 got baptized in one weekend show it to me it's not in there show me in the bible where 30 000 received the holy ghost in one single day one day it's not in there god has restored his church in power our problem today is not the lack of power [Applause] well why doesn't it work why hasn't people got all the wheelchairs yet why hasn't cancer's been healed i'll tell you why it's not the lack of power it's our stinking attitude toward each other we don't love each other we love each other this gang loves each other but attitude attitude isn't right yet i pray that it gets right before the day is over because miracles aren't going to happen till you do amen there's only one difference between the church in ethiopia and the church in america and it's not their love for jesus it's not their love for the word of god there's nobody in the world loves the word of god as much as you people do no one in the world loves preaching as much as you do you can go to some countries and you preach more in 30 minutes you've lost them and if you're going to be an evangelist you better understand that culture some people don't eat right their minds aren't good their minds are dull their eyes are dull and you're stupid to preach to them for two hours they can't contain it they can't get it you know how long i preached when thirty thousand received the holy ghost approximately 16 minutes there's nothing wrong with the love of god's word among us amen the difference the difference is their attitude toward each other when an ethiopian i'm not talking about an american celebrity but when an ethiopian lays their hands on another ethiopian their attitude is this oh this is a wonderful man of god this is a wonderful woman of god and god is going to answer their prayer and they will reach up and take a hold of their wrist and pull their hand down and kiss their hand that don't happen here that does not happen here i see brother and sister glenn smith back here in the audience would you stand brother and sister glenn smith god bless them you know why you didn't clap your hands because you don't know who they are brother and sister glenn smith went to central america there were 16 united pentecostal churches there 16 in all of central america and when they retired at 70 years old there were three thousand churches the reason you don't get healed when glenn smith lays his hands upon it because you don't know who he is [Music] [Applause] you talking about apostle there is never an apostle any greater than glenn smith i don't care whether you believe it or not it's a truth just because you don't believe it doesn't make it untrue attitude we're not having revival it's not because we're lazy my god i come down here to because of the times and last year i traveled 200 000 miles preached in 41 districts and several nations and i come down here and you guys make me feel like a slob we're not lazy i said we're not lazy we have bad attitudes we're not lazy it's all right [Applause] where's brother kline dance here he is he uh yeah we're learning here yeah you're not gonna let me catch you again are you he wanted to go to ethiopia with me and he's uh whether jack cunningham's his mentor and i have so much confidence in him and he wanted him to go to ethiopia with me so i said fine and i called him i said son i don't want you to go to ethiopia what i'd like for you to do is go to papua new guinea with me and he said [Laughter] i said well i believe that's the will of god he said do you really feel the will of god i said yes that's the will of god by the kind dance i said you call your travel agent and get it all fixed and he finally got it fixed last night he's been working on it for three weeks trying to get his ticket and trying to get his schedule made and he finally got it made and they said it's okay everything's clear and i said all right call them up again and cancel that ticket because you're going to ethiopia with me but you wasn't going until i understood your attitude [Applause] he swung his head and said what's going on i said you may not know what's going on but i know what's going on because if i make one slip over there i could lose 20 000 souls just like that and i don't want some tourists hanging on me i want somebody over there that's got the right kind of an attitude i want somebody over there that respects the man of god let me tell you something my time is almost gone there is not a nation in the world that the satanic power has been more thoroughly broken than it is in north america the intercessors in north america has prevailed and when you think that you're wrestling against the power of the devil you're not wrestling against the power of the devil at all his power is broken what you're wrestling in wrestling against is the power of the human mind and the human will [Applause] and the power of human flesh and the devil is tickled to death that you think it's healthy i have taught for 27 years most of you know this for 27 years i've talked regional power of satanic power following boundaries because governments cannot resist the power of the devil they're so weak they think they're smart but they're so weak that they have to respond to to the unseen satanic power and that's the reason every human thing in this nation has a voice from the gays to the upc people we all got a voice with the president you know why because the kingdom of satan is totally splintered in america and our government is reflecting the condition of the spirit world right so everybody's got a voice nobody's in control of nothing [Applause] you talking about an opportunity but you know what we're going to do if we're not careful all the devil has to do is fool with the upc about 10 seconds a year and he wakes one of us up in the middle of night and injects a thought from the devil in his mind and because he's influential he gets us all into a horrendous fight and you can forget about revival as long as we're fighting so for about 10 seconds a year the devil turns his tension toward us and then he says took care of that they're good for another year [Applause] it's truth where you believe it or not the only power the devil has is the power to interject thought into our mind now the devil is pretty massive in asia very massive but very weak he's just big i'm big but i'm not tough one of these young fellas it looks like rambo could knock me over easy in asia the devil is big but he is so weak just tickles me to death for the devil to show up because i love to humiliate him in front of the whole congregation amen because i have authority over him whether call that's aaron it's no it's not arrogance it is knowledge knowledge he that's within me is greater than he that's in the world ah brother cole you attacking the devil like that you fall off of the platform and kill yourself if i fall off of this platform the devil had nothing to do with it it's just because i'm so fat and awkward the devil had nothing to do with it let me tell you something he is scared to death to me i'm not afraid of the devil i said i'm not afraid of the devil i'm not afraid of the devil but i sure am afraid of human flesh i was sitting on a platform once and the pastor leaned over to me song service already over leaned over to me and said that woman that just came in is full of the devil i said good we'll take care of her in 10 seconds but if it's flesh it'll take you 20 years [Applause] praise the lord i wish i had a little more time [Applause] you know when we're going to have a revival when you start doing something that you can't do without apologizing right now you cannot imagine how painful it is for some people to get in the pulpit and say something kind about a man of god or a woman of god and do it without apologizing now we're not speaking against you now god and when we learn to praise each other you're going to have revival someone says brother cole the bible teaches to be humble you don't give us a chance to be humble now think about what he said because you are masters of humiliation and you keep us so humiliated that we don't have a chance to be humble [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it's not being humble when you behave yourself and you're about two foot under the muck in the mud and breathing through a snorkel that's not being humble and that's where most of us are most of the time we are self-appointed people to humiliate each other because we don't want you to get lifted up in pride that is a bunch of malarkey that is not your job there's not a word in the bible that tells you to humiliate or humble anybody there's not one word in there that tells you to keep your brother humble [Applause] and the reason we can't perform is because you go around and telling people how rotten no good nothing we are would you please quit saying that about me let me tell you who i am i am a son of god let's say that i'm no good what's saying i'm rotten with saying i'm nothing that's not the truth that's what i used to be but god has saved me he has filled me with the holy ghost and he has made me his child he has made me a member of the royal family someone said brother mangan said when we realize who we are we have revival that ain't going to do it either bishop i've been doing that a long time and you have too this man lives and operates in the dimension of the gift of faith all the time and he knows it and yet at the same time he is one of the most human humble human beings that ever lived now that's quite a little trick to have the gift of faith and be humble at the same time but he has done it but if we can see what you have done in the fact that you know who you are but i wonder what you would have done if we knew who you are [Applause] can you imagine what this man would have done in the last 40 or 50 years if you'd have known if you would have known who he was he knew who he was but we didn't know who he was until recently and you still don't know you just know a little bit if you had any idea who that guy or that woman is standing beside you they could just turn it right around there and curse the cancer that's in your body and you'd be instantly healed [Applause] humility is a condition of the heart and not a behavior you cannot accomplish the will of god and the power of god unless you're very positive very positive and operate in the dimension of faith sit down just a moment you only take a little more time you see that makes it very dangerous for us you cannot have people get the holy ghost and get up and say i am god's worst i'm just the most humble no good nothing you've ever seen in your life nobody's going to get the holy ghost because they're going to believe you [Laughter] they're going to believe you i remember when i became very weary i was attracted severely i made all the tabloids last month that's a record [Laughter] i usually make them every month but that's the first time i made them all in one month and it's incredible what they say so they tell me i don't read them i haven't read one of them not one my friends call me you know and they're mad because of what they've said about me they say i say this and said that and said the other they're all liars i didn't say what they say i said but i'm sure not going to give credibility to them but fussing with them i'm not going to answer them don't answer their letters amen praise the lord but i became very weary people began to badger me severely i've always preached controversial things been my lot [Laughter] [Applause] they knew that when they invited me that i'd do something like that today but they all like it you know i remember when i went to this country in the holy ghost rallies had people sit on chairs now it's in the book of acts you know that they received the holy ghost while they were sitting but it you can't believe the way it blew our minds someone said i got the holy ghost on my knees that's all right nothing wrong with that but you got it methodist style john wesley started that not the apostles apostles didn't start that while peter yet spake to them the holy ghost fell upon him that's the apostolic way you won't get it method of style go ahead it's still good [Applause] just keep going but sarah began to attack me so severely that i caved in and i fled i fled got in the woodwork i don't think i had a nervous breakdown i may have but i do know that for four years i cried every day the sun would rise i would sob and i remember i was severely attacked by the enemy i don't want to sound mystic to you but my wife was dying i had brought her home from asia my wife didn't come home from asia because they gave her a red car and she wanted a blue one that's not the reason she came home i carried my wife home in a basket she was dying she would pray four hours a day every day after her prayer meeting she wouldn't be able to get up and i would pick her up off of the floor when she would finish her prayer meetings and something broke inside of her i took her to a hospital and put her on the floor held her head because every time her head would move she'd go unconscious i held her head for eight hours behind her in a jeep and then i put her on the floor of a train down between the seats a blanket and then i flew her two thousand miles to a hospital seven day at venice hospital when they examined her they thought she had a cerebral hemorrhage and finally they came out to me after days of examination and they said what in the name of god have you people been doing i said why they said your wife is dying of a broken heart and the blood and the water has separated and the blood is coming to the pores of her skin and she was very sick she would go to sleep and be like she was dead for 22 hours and then i'd have to wake her up and she was asleep one night and i was beside her and some kind of a being come into my room a horrible looking thing took a hold of me and threw me on the floor and when it did my wife set up just like that and said in jesus name and it was gone i don't know what it was but i suffered horribly and i called a friend of mine and i said i have not sinned but i have lost my way and i don't know what to do i don't know which way to go or what to do and i put my life into my friend's hands and i was not allowed to do anything or go anywhere or even stay at home unless he told me to do so he took total control of my life the first thing he told me to do was to rest sometimes that's exactly what you need there's a little bit of rest and i rested and then he called me and he said i want you to come to columbus ohio for a holy ghost rally and i said no i'm not going to do it he said you must do it i said i am not going to do it i don't have faith for it and i started sobbing i just started sobbing he said you are not in charge you will do what i tell you to do i said all right i'll be there and i drove 210 miles and god being my witness i sobbed every mile of the way so much so that i could hardly see the highway but when i finally got to the hotel and it was time for church i knew that you can't have people get the holy ghost and miracles happen and get in a pulpit crying there's nothing wrong with crying but it has its place and you can't inspire faith if you display your own weaknesses so i washed the redness out of my face and on the strength of my friend's word he said you're hearing the will of god billy i said all right i trust you and when i walk to the pulpit i walk to the pulpit like this and i said i am here in the will of god the anointing of the holy ghost is upon me and that is not hypocrisy that was an act of pure faith you see if it hadn't worked if it hadn't worked nobody would have blamed god they would have blamed me so all you dear precious people that are so worried about god's reputation you're not protecting god you're protecting your own stinking reputation nobody was going to die there but me if it didn't work [Laughter] and i said i am here in the will of god and god will fill with the holy ghost tonight 67 people receive the holy ghost in that single service 67 67. praise the lord this is what i want to tell you the next morning i get in my car and for 210 miles i sobbed every mile of the way humility is not what you do it's what you feel you can get up and say i am god's worst i just really am nothing and have so much pride and arrogance or you can get up there in the anointing of the lord and say i'm here in the will of god god's anointing is upon me and you're thinking god i am totally dependent on you if this works it's because you're going to perform america and when somebody gets in your pulpit and they come with the anointing of the lord and with faith and you cut them down in your heart nothing will happen not because they don't have the power of god not because god don't want to do it but god can't do it when you have a bad attitude towards the person whom god wants to use [Applause] you and say if brother smith is so great let him come home and do it he can't do it at home you got too many stinking attitudes [Applause] that's the reason why somebody that you think so nobody can go to certain countries and have such great revivals it's because the attitude of the people ah man of god they don't have more power over there than they got over here the only difference is the attitude of those that's listening to them praise the lord hallelujah i love this praise the lord praise the lord what time is it [Applause] tell you what i want you to do i want you to stand right now turn and shake hands with one single person and keep a hold of their hand just turn and shake hands with one single person now this is going to be fun you got one brother here it didn't even turn attitude i didn't come down here to play tiddlywinks with you folks praise the lord hallelujah now i want you to look at whoever you're shaking hands with look at them look right at them turn face them now i want you to say to them you are great you know why you giggled now let me talk to you you know why you giggled because you just lied you don't believe that well you're different brother megan that's the reason you giggle you think that's some kind of a jerk you got a hold of their hand you know you think they're you know you love them they got the holy ghost they're ready for the coming of the lord but they're really not nobody nobody important now do it again and try to be honest that's better we haven't made it yet but that's better now let me tell you what went to your mind some of you said i'm quite a bit better preacher than he is i can preach a lot better than he can i pastor a much larger church hello hallelujah man glory god praise the lord that's what went through your mind when you was trying to say you're great now you're really trying this i believe this crowd try anything if you thought it was will of god you're already trying but we haven't even come close we haven't even come close if you could say that to that person and really mean their great in god they could lay their hand on you and i don't care what was wrong with you you would be instantly miraculously healed by the power of god praise the lord praise the lord praise the lord are you aware that that person that you have a hold of is a child of god are you aware that they're full of the holy ghost the power of god [Applause] stop just a moment stop just a moment now something is extremely important to me no one has laid their hands upon me and prayed for my trip the potential of papua new guinea is thousand receiving the holy ghost the potential of northeast india is somewhere between five and seven thousand and the potential in ethiopia is probably a hundred thousand i could make one single mistake and lose twenty thousand souls by just a slip of the tongue the blink of an eye that wasn't right or an attitude a moment of frustration i could say something that would destroy twenty thousand souls and nobody yet and there's some of the greatest spiritual giants in the world in this place tonight and i'm going to ask one single person to pray for me as far as laying their hands upon me and praying a prayer and it's going to be this young boy right here in this gray suit son if i make a mistake i could lose 20 000 souls with one single mistake do you have the holy ghost i think you're great i think you're wonderful i think you're wonderful i think you're precious now you lay your hand upon me and pray the prayer of faith that my foot and my tongue will not slip on this trip [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] now then turn to your brother or your sister and tell them again and mean it mean it this time mean it mean it i commend you mean it forget about the clay feet forget about the mistakes forget about the fears and mean it say it now lay your hands upon each other and command miracles to happen in their bodies command miracles to happen in their churches in the name of the lord jesus christ let the power of the holy ghost go across this place let the proper respect be here for each other may we be able to understand who's laying their hands upon us a child of god a holy baptized saint of god is laying their hands upon them jesus jesus jesus jesus hallelujah [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] god is in this place the holy power of god is working right now [Applause] lord i speak against unbelief i speak against attitudes that are not of god [Applause] right now right now take your hand off of the one you're praying with right now i want you just for a moment just for a moment now the very first thought that comes in your mind [Music] now i'm going to give you a little word of wisdom when god uses you the first thought that comes in your mind the instant thought is from god the second thought which is very quickly on the heels of it within seconds comes from your flesh and the third thought comes from the devil now when i say three whatever thought comes in your mind to do whomever to go and pray for i don't care you have to walk out the back of this church and you're just a brand new member and god says come lay your hands on james kilgart i want you to do it one two three now whatever the lord told you to do do it in jesus name [Music] brother klein dance please come to the front of the church in jesus [Applause] do what god told you to do i don't care how wild it is do it in jesus name do it in jesus name [Applause] um [Applause] oh [Applause] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Applause] i will see them [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] hallelujah have you done it have you done what the lord led you to do or have you done what your flesh told you or have you done what the devil told you [Applause] let's lift our hands and shout the shout of victory let's shout the shout of victory [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] do what the lord wants you to do do what the lord wants you to do not now the lord praise god several of you are coming to me and asking me to pray for you that's disobedience i ask you to do what god wanted you to do do what i've asked you to do we need to learn that i said we need to learn that i don't care if you are americans you don't have the right to disobey the man of god can you say amen let's lift our hands and worship the lord let's praise him let's praise him god's doing miracles here we're going to hear from this we're going to hear about miracles there's already people repenting to each other there's people going to each other and making things right i'm aware of it [Music] good minute folks i want you to hear this testimony whenever the young man laid hands on brother cole instantly in the spirit they're descended from heaven two huge angelic beings they were not dressed in white they looked bronze and they stood about four feet over him on both sides they took up military positions and the holy spirit spoke to me and said these are warrior angels that i have sent this day to accompany my servant maybe you thought that was just a nobody there that wasn't a nobody that was a young child of god that was a young son of god and every last one of you are sons of god every one of your sons of god let's rise up and take what belongs to us let's quit intimidating each other let's quit humiliating each other let me say one more word to you our philosophy is to keep everybody humble unless they fail god let me tell you something there are those that get exalted there was a young elder that i took with me that was full-time in the church that i pastor i took him with me last year to ethiopia and when he came home he was so exalted that he could no longer work with me he was lifted up in total pride and probably will result in his total destruction there are those who are lifted up in pride but for everyone that is destroyed for pride there are ten that fail from discouragement and all they need is someone to say hey you're wonderful you're great you're a wonderful pastor you're a precious saint of god you're a wonderful preacher's wife you're a child of god amen we are not humble there are a few here in this crowd that understands humility brother kilgore understands humility and there are others i've already mentioned brother gerald mangan understands humility but most of us do not understand humility what we understand is intimidation and we're afraid of you and the reason we act the way we do is not because we're humble but because we're afraid of you we're afraid of what you'll say about us even if we get up to sing we're just terrified literally terrified of what you're going to say not to my face but in the motel room that's what we're afraid of oh i got your number today buddy my god we've heard so much preaching and merle even used my text i had changed my text but you couldn't be a sweeter guy in the world do it to me but i had a message for you today and that is not arrogance i am totally dependent on god and god help me praise the lord let's shout a little bit jaren give me some shouting music [Applause] [Music] victory [Music]

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Published: Wed Sep 01 2021